State Ex Rel. Ashcroft v. Wahl

PRITCHARD, Presiding Judge.

This is a suit brought by appellant to enjoin the respondents’ activities in the promotion of an alleged scheme for the solicitation of consumers to join a club called Business Men’s Venture, said to be in violation of §§ 407.020 and 407.405, RSMo 1978. The dispositive question is whether respondents’ activities contravene the provisions of § 407.405, called generally “Pyramid Sales Schemes.”

Appellant alleged violations of § 407.020, which provides: “The act, use or employment by any person of any deception, fraud, false pretense, false promise, misrepresentation,…